CVE-2017-8818

Published: 29 November 2017

curl and libcurl before 7.57.0 on 32-bit platforms allow attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact because too little memory is allocated for interfacing to an SSL library.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	only affects 7.56.x

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
curl Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	artful	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	trusty	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	upstream	Released (7.57.0)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	zesty	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Bugs

https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2093

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